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Subject: Re: Ivy Sports/ The Portal/ Slots/Backlash

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Date Posted: 11:15:47 04/23/24 Tue
In reply to: joiseyfan 's message, "Re: Ivy Sports/ The Portal/ Slots/Backlash" on 10:31:59 04/23/24 Tue

Rather than get into a sentence-by-sentence deconstruction of the Bari Weiss universe, let’s just say that Joisey, which since time immemorial has exported more students than any other state — not %, numbers, more bodies than either New York or California, for example — has been sending kids west, south, north, and east for many decades. The idea it’s much better publicized now is all to the good, because they should go where they fit, not where they or their parents live, or THINK they should want to go.

The idea that this will have any discernable effect on the Ivies in the near future is a misguided fallback on the idea that there is some magic list of 2000 students that compose an ideal Harvard class (for example). In fact, the ideal class is one of thousands of selections of 2000 of the 25,000 fully-qualified applicants. There have been 10-20% of admittees who have been turning down Harvard forever, and it’s part of the game.

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